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36 produkter
Permissible Progeny?
The Morality of Procreation and Parenting
Av Richard Vernon, Samantha Brennan m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
642 kr
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This volume contributes to the growing literature on the morality of procreation and parenting. About half of the chapters take up questions about the morality of bringing children into existence. They discuss the following questions: Is it wrong to create human life? Is there a connection between …
Permissible Progeny?
The Morality of Procreation and Parenting
Av HANNAN, Sarah Hannan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2581 kr
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This volume contributes to the growing literature on the morality of procreation and parenting. About half of the chapters take up questions about the morality of bringing children into existence. They discuss the following questions: Is it wrong to create human life? Is there a connection between …
Permissible Progeny?
The Morality of Procreation and Parenting
Av Sarah Hannan, Samantha Brennan m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
931 kr
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This volume contributes to the growing literature on the morality of procreation and parenting. About half of the chapters take up questions about the morality of bringing children into existence. They discuss the following questions: Is it wrong to create human life? Is there a connection between …
Permissible Progeny?
The Morality of Procreation and Parenting
Av Richard Vernon, Samantha Brennan m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
642 kr
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This volume contributes to the growing literature on the morality of procreation and parenting. About half of the chapters take up questions about the morality of bringing children into existence. They discuss the following questions: Is it wrong to create human life? Is there a connection between …
Unity, Plurality and Politics
Essays in Honour of F. M. Barnard
Av J. M. Porter, Richard Vernon
Inbunden, 2019
2141 kr
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First published in 1986. Nations have a unity often described as 'cultural'; and within them there are divergences some of which are termed 'political'. But culture and politics do not, therefore, comprise two wholly distinct zones or orders of experience, the one marked by unity, the other by …
Unity, Plurality and Politics
Essays in Honour of F. M. Barnard
Av J. M. Porter, Richard Vernon
Häftad, 2021
548 kr
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First published in 1986. Nations have a unity often described as 'cultural'; and within them there are divergences some of which are termed 'political'. But culture and politics do not, therefore, comprise two wholly distinct zones or orders of experience, the one marked by unity, the other by …
Locke on Toleration
Häftad, 2010
439 kr
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John Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) is one of the most widely-read texts in the political theory of toleration, and a key text for the liberal tradition. However, Locke also defended toleration more extensively in three subsequent Letters, which he wrote in response to criticism by an …
Accountability for Collective Wrongdoing
Av Tracy Isaacs, Richard Vernon
Häftad, 2011
448 kr
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Ideas of collective responsibility challenge the doctrine of individual responsibility that is the dominant paradigm in law and liberal political theory. But little attention is given to the consequences of holding groups accountable for wrongdoing. Groups are not amenable to punishment in the way …
Cosmopolitan Regard
Political Membership and Global Justice
Häftad, 2010
569 kr
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Cosmopolitan theory suggests that we should shift our moral attention from the local to the global. Richard Vernon argues, however, that if we adopt cosmopolitan beliefs about justice we must re-examine our beliefs about political obligation. Far from undermining the demands of citizenship, …
Cosmopolitan Regard
Political Membership and Global Justice
Inbunden, 2010
927 kr
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Cosmopolitan theory suggests that we should shift our moral attention from the local to the global. Richard Vernon argues, however, that if we adopt cosmopolitan beliefs about justice we must re-examine our beliefs about political obligation. Far from undermining the demands of citizenship, …
Locke on Toleration
Inbunden, 2010
1462 kr
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John Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) is one of the most widely-read texts in the political theory of toleration, and a key text for the liberal tradition. However, Locke also defended toleration more extensively in three subsequent Letters, which he wrote in response to criticism by an …
Career of Toleration
John Locke, Jonas Proast, and After
E-bok, 1997
1041 kr
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The Career of Toleration considers the Locke-Proast controversy from the standpoint of political theory, examining Locke''s and Proast''s texts and tracing their relationship to later discussions of toleration. Vernon reconstructs the grounds of the dispute, drawing attention to the long-term …
Bringing Power to Justice?
The Prospects of the International Criminal Court
Av Richard Vernon, Michael Milde m. fl.
E-bok, 2006
296 kr
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Contributors include Dapo Akande (Oxford), Antonio Franceschet (Acadia), Tracy Isaacs (Western Ontario), Catherine Lu (McGill), Darryl Robinson (The International Criminal Court), Michael P. Scharf (Case Western Reserve School of Law), Alex Tuckness (Iowa State), and David Wippman (Cornell).
Bringing Power to Justice?
The Prospects of the International Criminal Court
Av Richard Vernon, Michael Milde m. fl.
E-bok, 2006
302 kr
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Contributors include Dapo Akande (Oxford), Antonio Franceschet (Acadia), Tracy Isaacs (Western Ontario), Catherine Lu (McGill), Darryl Robinson (The International Criminal Court), Michael P. Scharf (Case Western Reserve School of Law), Alex Tuckness (Iowa State), and David Wippman (Cornell).
Political Morality
A Theory of Liberal Democracy
Inbunden, 2001
2772 kr
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Although liberal democratic polities have an important place in contemporary politics, their justification is contentious. Liberalism and democracy are commonly thought to be inconsistent, or at least in tension with one another; and the reality of liberal democracy is perceived as falling far …
Unity, Plurality and Politics
Essays in Honour of F. M. Barnard
Av Richard Vernon, J. M. Porter
E-bok, 2019
641 kr
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First published in 1986. Nations have a unity often described as ''cultural''; and within them there are divergences some of which are termed ''political''. But culture and politics do not, therefore, comprise two wholly distinct zones or orders of experience, the one marked by unity, the other by …
Unity, Plurality and Politics
Essays in Honour of F. M. Barnard
Av Richard Vernon, J. M. Porter
E-bok, 2019
641 kr
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First published in 1986. Nations have a unity often described as ''cultural''; and within them there are divergences some of which are termed ''political''. But culture and politics do not, therefore, comprise two wholly distinct zones or orders of experience, the one marked by unity, the other by …
Accountability for Collective Wrongdoing
Av Tracy Isaacs, Richard Vernon
Inbunden, 2011
868 kr
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Ideas of collective responsibility challenge the doctrine of individual responsibility that is the dominant paradigm in law and liberal political theory. But little attention is given to the consequences of holding groups accountable for wrongdoing. Groups are not amenable to punishment in the way …
Historical Redress
Must We Pay for the Past?
Av Richard Vernon, James Garvey
Häftad, 2012
376 kr
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This title provides an introduction to the philosophical implications of the recent surge of political and ethical interest in historical redress. Should the British Museum return the Elgin Marbles to Greece? Should settler societies in North America and Australasia compensate the aboriginal people …
Historical Redress
Must We Pay for the Past?
E-bok, 2012
405 kr
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Should the British Museum return the Elgin Marbles to Greece? Should settler societies in North America and Australasia compensate the aboriginal peoples whom they dispossessed? Should Israel have accepted Germany''s compensation for Nazi extermination policies? The last twenty years have seen a …
Historical Redress
Must We Pay for the Past?
Av Richard Vernon, James Garvey
Inbunden, 2012
1425 kr
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This title provides an introduction to the philosophical implications of the recent surge of political and ethical interest in historical redress. Should the British Museum return the Elgin Marbles to Greece? Should settler societies in North America and Australasia compensate the aboriginal people …
Historical Redress
Must We Pay for the Past?
E-bok, 2012
405 kr
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Should the British Museum return the Elgin Marbles to Greece? Should settler societies in North America and Australasia compensate the aboriginal peoples whom they dispossessed? Should Israel have accepted Germany's compensation for Nazi extermination policies? The last twenty years have seen a …
Friends, Citizens, Strangers
Essays on Where We Belong
E-bok, 2005
1174 kr
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All human relationships are not created equal; attachments between close associates ('friends'), compatriots ('citizens'), and humans ('strangers') vary greatly in terms of their character and importance. From a critical standpoint, though, which type of attachment should take priority? Are we …
Justice Back and Forth
Duties to the Past and Future
Inbunden, 2016
640 kr
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Ideas of justice have traditionally focused on what individuals owe to one another and have drawn our attention to what is considered fair – what one of us owes to another is justly matched by what the other owes to them. However, what does justice require us to do for past and future …
Justice Back and Forth
Duties to the Past and Future
E-bok, 2016
795 kr
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Ideas of justice have traditionally focused on what individuals owe to one another and have drawn our attention to what is considered fair – what one of us owes to another is justly matched by what the other owes to them. However, what does justice require us to do for past and future generations? …
Justice Back and Forth
Duties to the Past and Future
E-bok, 2016
795 kr
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Ideas of justice have traditionally focused on what individuals owe to one another and have drawn our attention to what is considered fair – what one of us owes to another is justly matched by what the other owes to them. However, what does justice require us to do for past and future generations? …
Citizenship and Order
Studies in French Political Thought
E-bok, 1986
463 kr
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The citizen, a figure capable of self-government is both the political and the personal sense, is a central and enduring theme of political thought. The role of the citizen in the modern state was question raised persistently by French political theorists from Rousseau on, as they sought new …
Commitment and Change
Georges Sorel and the Idea of Revolution
E-bok, 1978
359 kr
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This analysis of Georges Sorel''s ideas on revolution and the original translations of some of his little-known writings on this theme offer a critical reassessment of Sorel''s place in modern political thought. By turns conservative pessimist, social democrat, revolutionary syndicalist, and …
Commitment and Change
Georges Sorel and the Idea of Revolution
Häftad, 1978
274 kr
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This analysis of Georges Sorel's ideas on revolution and the original translations of some of his little-known writings on this theme offer a critical reassessment of Sorel's place in modern political thought. By turns conservative pessimist, social democrat, revolutionary syndicalist, and …
Citizenship and Order
Studies in French Political Thought
Häftad, 1986
372 kr
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The citizen, a figure capable of self-government is both the political and the personal sense, is a central and enduring theme of political thought. The role of the citizen in the modern state was question raised persistently by French political theorists from Rousseau on, as they sought new …
